PERFORMING HERITAGE

UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAMTAO, INC. (UGAT)

Anthropological Association of the Philippines

30^th Annual Conference

23-25 October 2008

Benigno Hall, Capitol Compound and Heroes Hall, Lazatin Boulevard

Co-presentors: City Government of San Fernando and Provincial Government of Pampanga

Sponsors: Philippine Social Science Council and JDN Center for Kapampangan Studies, Holy Angel University

Heritage is a contested socio-cultural category because what constitutes it depends on the ways by which positioned actors and institutions would mobilize its meaningful values in such realms as identity politics, commodification of culture as resource, and biocultural diversity advocacies. Hence, heritage, as a vital site of cultural production, consumption, and transformation, has permeated our prevailing views on cultural similitude and difference, and necessarily implicates issues of authenticity, appropriation, conservation, preservation and so forth. As a subject matter, it has increasingly become a site for transdisciplinal inquiries by practitioners and scholars in the social sciences and the humanities. In all these, perspectives drawing on theories of culture, power, temporality, space, agency and structure get mobilized, resulting in often competing subjectivities on heritage as a human invention entangled in structures and processes at local, national, regional, and global scales.

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